Bruce Willis
is a prisoner in a grim future in which the small number of surviving humans
live underground. He’s sent back to 1996 to find out what caused the pestilence
and where the army of the Twelve Monkeys, the ones to spread the pestilence,
is.

He’s sent
back to the wrong time. The first time to 1990. The second time to 1917. But
the third time he lands in 1996.

The premise
is strong, the story is well constructed. It’s exciting and convincing and it
has some of Gilliam’s twisted humour. Brad Pitt’s manic performance is possibly
his best.